There are two broad types of options for mutual fund investors – Dividend and Growth. Experts say that investors should choose either option basis their investment objective. Tax implications should also be factored in before selecting any of the two options. The basic difference between dividend and growth options is that the profits made by the mutual fund is paid back to investors after certain intervals in the previous option and re-invested in the scheme in the latter option.
Under the dividend option, profits made by the mutual fund scheme are paid out to investors at certain intervals like annual, daily, monthly, quarterly etc. In the growth option, profits made by the scheme are re-invested in the scheme instead of being paid out to
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